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The band plays club dates once a week and performs mostly original music. Green Fuse also covers artists like Alex Chilton, Elvis Presley, and Carl Perkins. The band next engagement will be at Johnny D's on Wednesday night.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Graduates Form Band | 2/12/1988 | See Source »

Elvis Presley throbs from the jukebox as bobby-soxed waiters and waitresses improvise dance steps between servings. A young business crowd samples such unautomated Automat classics as fish cakes, macaroni and cheese, and chicken pot pie, all of which, alas, pale beside memories of the originals. The menu also includes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: A Taste of The Past | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

High Tide's Lilli (seething enigmatically under the tight rein of Judy Davis' performance) is quite like Judith Hearne. Rootlessly she ranges the Australian provinces as another sort of fringe musician, backup singer for an Elvis imitator. She too drinks, and though she will indulge in desultory sex, it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Last Chance for Lost Lives | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

Exploiting an extraordinary wealth of scholarly, journalistic and pop culture documentation--everything from Dr. Spock to Elvis Presley to Mad Magazine--the author develops a complex web of historical context to explain the origins and antecedents of a movement that has all too often been simplistically reduced to single determinants...

Author: By Richard Murphy, | Title: Guns and Granola | 1/29/1988 | See Source »

All too often, though, the two terms are not so easily distinguished. Many a criminal trial, after all, revolves around precisely that gray area where the two begin to blur. Was Bernhard Goetz just a volatile Everyman, ourselves pushed to the limit, and then beyond? Or was he in fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Of Weirdos and Eccentrics | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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